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...Verizon FIOS that is!

Verizon can almost serve GigE on existing FiOS platform, which means you'll soon be relocating

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It's not like we're holding Verizon to its word or anything, but the company purportedly decided to shelve all future FiOS rollout plans back in March. Since then, however, Big Red has been talking up its fiber-based services, leaving us to wonder why it would put a stop to laying more of it. Whatever the case, the company is now gloating about hitting "near Gigabit-per-second" speeds on the existing FiOS GPON platform. For those who aren't as technically savvy, that means that FiOS can essentially saturate your Gigabit Ethernet jack, and if things got much faster, you'd need a port that's not even available on consumer machines to handle the extra data. The nitty-gritty details of the test are just past the break, but the long and short of it is this -- Verizon saw speeds of 925Mbps to a local server and over 800Mbps to a regional speed test server located some 400 miles away. Better still, this black magic was all done with very little magic at all, requiring just minor tweaks to the system in order to uncap all sorts of extra headroom. Meanwhile, your YouTube upload is being capped by Time Warner Cable at a speed too sluggish to mention. Awesome.
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/verizon-can-almost-serve-gige-on-existing-fios-platform-which-m/

My Jaw dropped when I saw this. I know other nations have speeds this fast but this is amazing imo
 
My town was one of the first to get FIOS. though it took like a year and a half for it to actually reach my part of the town. :(
 
My family was supposed to switch from -



to Fios, but it never got to my area. :/
 
its in front of my house under the ground but we aren't able to switch to it yet
 
weird, the test was done in the town i currently live in...eat my dust
 
Well let's hope the ranga gets voted in & I get my fiber-optic internet. Satellite sucks.
 
Would be funny if they put a 250 gig cap per month like Comcast.
 
Verizon only pulls that crap with their Wireless Broadband
 
Bad^Hat said:
Oh my, a 250gb cap?

You poor souls. :(
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No, Verizon hasn't capped any bandwidth and is not going to. I think they're fully on the right page in that regard.

I once lived with a capped bandwidth provider and it sucked balls. I mean the provider was great for their awesome customer service, but it was expensive because they had to pay verizon for their lines and shit, so I was paying both my internet provider as well as verizon for the lines.
 
25GB cap here. It is the only broadband (other than satellite) that is available to me where I live and the only reason we even have it is because the government is paying the company in question to roll out wireless broadband over the country. It's also only been here for three weeks.
 
Well considering they have to run the lines over the back of herds of sheep, I can see why it's so expensive...
 
I'm smart and paying £20/month for an uncapped 20Mb line, even though I don't get anywhere near 20Mb due to my area/distance from the exchange :(
 
I'm smarter and paying nothing for a 60Mbps line that lets me download at 1.3 megabytes per second from many sites, even though there's a 250 gig cap per month, which I don't reach.
 
Krynn72 said:
I'm smarter and paying nothing for a 60Mbps line that lets me download at 1.3 megabytes per second from many sites, even though there's a 250 gig cap per month, which I don't reach.
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60Mbps and only a 1.3 MB/s download speed? I have 25mbps and get around 2 MB/s on most web downloads/steam/torrents.
 
At my previous flat we had a 20mbps line and hit 2.7m/s quite a few times.
 
Hm, I just realized my download location was set to Czech Republic and my speed was set to <1Mbps in steam. Maybe that's why its slow haha.

EDIT: Eh, not really. Just started downloading something else and getting 1.4 megs per second.
 
Yeah I have 25. You should be getting something like 5-6 mb/s on downloads. It all depends what server you download from though. It's going to be hard to max out your connection unless your downloading from a non-busy steam server or someplace like Microsoft.

 
Well from the sounds of it, its not a matter of maxing out my connection, but even getting a reasonable fraction of what I'm not paying for.

Downloading on Steam from Boston gets me 1.4 megs a second, while my speedtest from Boston is
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I used to have a pretty good internet connection before we moved to a location where there is NO DSL.

I'm stuck with something like this
 
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Yeah that sucks dude, I feel your pain. If I ever move somewhere, I think I will only go where I have access to high speeds. And not your shitty "High Speed" stuff advertised to like, rural Americans who really get gypped in that respect.
 
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